How the Billboard Hot 100 Top 10 Makes Me Feel

Music does some interesting things to one's imagination. It takes you places, brings back memories, and cements events into your subconscious until they are brought about by the familiar melodies. Let's create some of those events as it pertains to the current Billboard Hot 100 Top 10.

1. "Someone Like You" Adele
This song makes me wanna sit out on the porch on a rainy afternoon, watching cars drive by in slow motion, conjuring up emotions I didn't even know I had.

2. "Moves Like Jagger" Maroon 5 feat. Christina Aguilera
When I hear this song, I am on the way to a party. But when I step in the place, I somehow enter another dimension back to 1973. The atmosphere is smooth and chill and on an wooden stage is a young Mick Jagger performing an everlasting playlist of Stones' hits.

3. "Pumped Up Kicks" Foster the People
For some reason or another, when I hear this I could be some kind of modern day sheriff who sits on her porch in a rickety rocking chair with a giant cowboy hat shielding my eyes from the sun. I spend my free time talking with locals, especially teens who hate their lives, and encourage them to better their situation with a new outlook on their life.

4. "Party Rock Anthem" LMFAO feat. GoonRock and Lauren Bennett
This song makes me feel like going downtown, grabbing random people from sidewalks and stoops, and shuffling and hustling in the middle of a traffic-soaked intersection. And when the police try to stop the madness they suddenly catch wind of the addictive beat, flash their red and blue siren lights, and breakdance on top of their squad cars.

5. "Super Bass" Nicki Minaj
This makes me wanna spaz out...like this kid. COME ON CRACKHEADS!

6. "You and I" Lady Gaga
When I hear this I imagine myself walking along an old dusty country road with my love. He, holding a small runaway bag. I, carrying a vintage guitar. We don't know where we're going; but as long as we have each other, it doesn't matter. *aww*

7. "Lighters" Bad Meets Evil feat. Bruno Mars
This song makes me wanna be in an open grass field full of thousands of people. No fighting, no violence, no sorrow. Just the music of nature and the audience. And we throw up our lighters (or cell phones) reflecting the midnight stars; for they're the only things lighting up the place.

8. "You Make Me Feel" Cobra Starship feat. Sabi
This song make' me feel like walking through a club in semi-slow motion nodding my head at all the partygoers. Then I am spotted by a young guy dressed in business casual leaning against the wall. And by the chorus, we get on the dance floor and dance the night into oblivion.

9. "Give Me Everything" Pitbull feat. Ne-Yo, Afrojack & Nayer
So once again I end up in a club. Only it's in Cuba. And for some reason I'm challenging a local to a dance competition. And after I defeat my opponent we all make our way to a moonlit beach and continue the fiesta there.

10. "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)" Katy Perry
One minute I'm lipsyncing the lyrics into a hairbrush in my bedroom and the next minute I end up in a mini-mansion of 200+ people where everything is pretty much trashed. The nervous young homeowner tries to clean up everything, but as the rowdy crowd chants "T.G.I.F.," he puts down the broom and dustpan and plays frisbee with the expensive china plates.


~L~